Editing Microcos paniculata (section)

== Description ==

This species ranges from Sri Lanka and India through Indo-China and southern China into Thailand and Malesia, in wet tropical to seasonally dry forest settings.<sup>[[#cite_note-1|[1]]]</sup><sup>[[#cite_note-3|[3]]]</sup> Descriptions range from a small tree about 3–12 m tall to a shrub or tree reaching 20 m; the difference reflects regional and habitat descriptions rather than a single dependable mature-size value.<sup>[[#cite_note-3|[3]]]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-4">[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-5">[[#cite_note-5|[5]]]</sup>

The leaves are thin, oval to oblong, and leathery. Pale-yellow flowers are produced in terminal and axillary panicles. The fruit is a globose to obovate drupe with a leathery pericarp, about 1.5 cm long and 1 cm wide; it is described as purplish and as dark brown when ripe in different regional accounts.<sup>[[#cite_note-3|[3]]]</sup><sup>[[#cite_note-5|[5]]]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-7">[[#cite_note-7|[7]]]</sup>